Arno Engel is an Analyst and Project Manager with the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) team at the OECD's Directorate for Education and Skills. He has been co-ordinating a policy review on ECEC quality and the OECD ECEC Network. Mr. Engel played a leading role in the first-ever international survey of ECEC staff, TALIS Starting Strong, and co-ordinated a review of Norway’s ECEC system. He is the co-author of several OECD reports on ECEC policies and transitions from ECEC to primary school in the Starting Strong series and contributed to the scoping phase of the OECD's International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study. He previously worked on European social, economic and development policies. He grew up in his native Germany and spent time in Portugal, Scotland, Mozambique and Belgium before settling in France. He holds a Master’s degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris.